Help! where the interpreter is invoked?

[Wei Zheng]

Hi All,

            I am reading the source codes of hotspot. I want to know where
the interpreter is invoked to translate the bytecodes of the static method
"main" in a class file into native instructions.

            I debugged the source codes and found the functions below are
invoked to execute the static method "main" : 

jni_CallStaticVoidMethod -> 

   jni_invoke_static -> 

     JavaCalls::call -> 
       JavaCalls::call_helper -> 

          StubRoutines::call_stub()( (address)&link,  ..) // the static
method "main" is executed after this step.

Who can tell me where the interpreter is invoked in the functions above?
Thank you very much!

 

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